Jennifer Weiner - Women Quotes

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Maybe love was a myth anyhow, a brew of hormones and fantasy, evolution's way of getting men and women together long enough for them to procreate, back in the day when girls got pregnant at twelve, were pregnant or nursing for the next twenty years, and were dead of the plague by forty.

Jennifer Weiner

Regular women carry pictures of their babies, their husbands, their summer houses. Fat ladies carry pictures of themselves at their skinniest.

Jennifer Weiner

Each new year, women are encouraged to reduce — to measure out our lives in 55-minute barre classes and four-ounce servings of chicken breast, to adhere to the diet that we're sure is going to work this time, even if none of the other diets worked any of the other times.

Jennifer Weiner

It's as if, for the purposes of good looks and sexiness, older women simply cease to exist. Or maybe they turn 60 and go marching, "Children of the Corn" style, into the racks at Nordstrom, never to be seen again.

Jennifer Weiner